Improvement in boiler washing-machines



S. ROOT.

BOILER WASHING-MACHINE.

Patented Feb. 15,1876.

A W111- II E! ATTORNEYS.

N-FEI'ERS, PHOTWUTKOGRAWER. WASHINGTON, D. O.

' UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

SYLVESTER ROOT, OF KEN TLAND, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT m BOILER WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,420, dated February 15, 1876; application filed I October 8, 1875. 4

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SYLVESTER Roo'r, of Kentland, in the county of Newton and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in. Clot-hes Washer, of which the following is a specification Figure l is a vertical section of my improved machine,takenthrouglithelinea:m,Fig.2. Fig. 2 is an end view of'the same,'part being broken away to show the construction.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre- 'spondin g parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved clothes-washer, which shall be so con structed as to keep the clothes in motion while being washed, and constantly discharge streams or sheets of water upon them, so that the dirt will be removed in a very short time.

The invention is an improvement in the class of boiler washing-machines in which the clothes are placed in a revolving cylinder provided with transverse tubes or troughs for carrying up and discharging water upon the clothes.

The improvement relates to the form or condirectly. toward'the axis of the cylinder, se-

cure the following advantages The necks or lips of the tubes take hold of the clothes and carry them up, and also turn them as the cylinder rotates. The lips, likewise, practically enlarge the capacity of the tubes, and confine a portion of the water contained in them till the cylinder has rotated nearly half round, so that the wateris discharged nearer the middle of the cylinder than in other machines of this class' It results that the clothes are changed in position, and .thorohghly subjected to the rinsing action of water at each rotation of the cylinder. The narrowness of the necks of the tubes also prevents the deposit of any considerableportion of dirt or sediment in the tubes, without, also, hindering the proper entrance and discharge of water, which is a desideratum.

I have shown the lips g ot'certain tubes extended to enable them to carry the clothes up higherthat is, nearly to the top of the cylinder.

I claim-- In a boiler washing-machine, the tubes G, forming the periphery of cylinder F, having the form shown, and arranged with their contracted and extended necks opening toward the axis of the cylinder, as and for the purpose specified.

SYLVESTER ROOT.

Witnesses:

' EDWARD R001, JoHN HUBERTZ. 

